BATH

Centre St. Arts Gallery, LLC, invites the public to a reception celebrating a new exhibition with guest artist Sarah Greenier of Bath on Friday, Sept. 9, at 11 Centre St. from 5-7 p.m.

Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.

Twenty Maine artist members work in a wide variety of styles and media, producing new work for every show. All work is original, with framed and matted pieces available, and sculpture in stone, clay and bronze.

Sarah Greenier grew up on Orr’s Island, graduated from Oak Grove School in Vassalboro, and went on to study graphic design at Pratt Institute in New York. After college, she returned to Maine and worked in commercial art for ten years. In 1996 she began exhibiting and selling her paintings at art shows throughout New England, winning numerous awards. In 2006, with husband Tom Greenier, she opened the Greenier Studio/Gallery next to their home at 428 Middle Street in Bath, where she paints, exhibits her work and teaches.

“It is important to have my art always be evolving,” Greenier said. “I started out painting in watercolor Maine coastal scenes and coastal still lifes. I switched to oil painting in 2006. In recent years I’ve taken to plein air painting, and joined the Plein Air Painters of Maine (PAPME) group of outdoor artists in Boothbay Harbor. My husband also loves painting outdoors, so it has been fun painting along the coast together.”

The pair took extended summer painting trips to Monhegan Island and Stonington, but now paint more locally.

“Painting closer to home is also more personal, and our best work seems to be of those places that are most meaningful to us,” Greenier said.

Greenier and artists of the Centre St Gallery will be in attendance at the opening reception. For more information, call the Centre St Arts Gallery at (207) 442-0300. The gallery is open seven days a week during July-September.